A partnership between the University of Derby and Buxton Opera House made the town a temporary home to a world-class orchestra and put the spotlight on the ever-increasing role of culture in the local economy.

A Buxton woman who used her degree to find her dream job even before she graduated was praised by the University of Derby’s new Vice-Chancellor at Saturday’s Graduation Awards Ceremony in the Devonshire Dome.

Chesterfield’s resurgent economy will get a further boost when the new University of Derby campus opens in the former St Helena’s Grammar School on Sheffield Road next year, business leaders heard last week.

Five hundred jobs are supported by the £32 million worth of spending generated each year by the University of Derby’s Buxton Campus, an economic impact report commissioned to mark the institution’s ten years in the town has revealed.

Five hundred jobs are supported by the £32 million worth of spending generated each year by the University of Derby’s Buxton Campus, an economic impact report commissioned to mark the institution’s ten years in the town has revealed.

One-to-one teaching at the University of Derby helped make Lauren Hubbard’s dream of a career in events management come true – and now she’s using the skills she learned to make the same thing happen for couples at a major Midlands wedding venue.

Tourists worldwide spent a billion nights in holiday accommodation for the first time last year, making the industry an attractive career for young people, consultant Jim Dixon told a packed University of Derby public lecture at the Buxton Campus.

Poverty in the High Peak is an everyday tragedy being played out in a house near you no matter where you live campaigners warned at a seminar on pay-day loans organised by the Church of England at the University of Derby’s Buxton Campus.

Specialist restaurants in London, Paris and Dubai have set the trend for dining in the dark, but this is the first time it has been tried in Buxton. Enthusiasts say that not being able to see adds extra flavour to a meal as this intensifies their sense of taste and smell

University of Derby sports lecturer Charles Spring has taken his place among Olympians, world champions and the man who taught Elvis Presley to fight after being inducted into the Martial Arts Illustrated magazine’s Hall of Fame.

Buxton’s Devonshire Spa at the University of Derby Buxton Campus is one of the top five day spas in the country, according to the shortlist for a nationwide competition which puts it in the same league as the Urban Retreat at Harrods.

The Koreans were given an insight into British public life by High Peak Mayor, Councillor Stewart Young, a tour of Chatsworth, a visit to Manchester’s art galleries and museums, a talk by Buxton police and a taste of British justice by visiting the town’s magistrates court.

Buxton took the first step towards becoming a dementia-friendly town after 30 representatives of organisations ranging from the NHS and law firms to local retailers and churches met at the University of Derby’s Buxton Campus.

University of Derby students are helping a Derbyshire schoolboy achieve his dream of repaying Sheffield Children’s Hospital for its life-saving treatment by holding a fundraising ball at their historic Devonshire Dome campus in Buxton.

Chesterfield’s resurgent economy will get a further boost when the new University of Derby campus opens in the former St Helena’s Grammar School on Sheffield Road next year, business leaders heard last week.

How Buxton can improve the lives of locals and visitors who live with dementia - while boosting businesses and saving NHS cash at the same time - will be revealed at a meeting in the University of Derby’s Buxton campus on July 28.

Hotels are turning away valuable business because they don’t understand how important accessibility is in today’s tourism industry, University of Derby Senior Lecturer Eleni Michopoulou said in her keynote speech at the annual Tourism for All Conference in Portugal.